There are three different layers of AI interfaces we will discuss.
- Interactive animations like AI for Oceans and Unit 1 Practice.
- Watson Chatbots like this Banking Example
- Interactive questions that target skills based feedback like this Question Set
Watson’s Free Chatbot Interface
This Banking Example chatbot is an industry standard. It shows how these interactions can take standardized communications between two people and make it a natural conversation between a person and a computer. This could be important for many reasons! Now people can do banking any time of day or night. The company can make sure each person gets the same experience. And, the company can hire more programmers to make more technologies.
Machine Learning
For interactive websites to be useful they need to learn from users. User eXperience (UX) testers and computer algorithms both contribute to making user interactions as easy as possible. When computers “learn” they update their rules to better accomplish a task. The AI for Oceans interactive shows this training process and so does the Watson tutorials discussed above. Here are two videos that give an overview of Machine Learning (commonly called “ML”). By the time you finish watching them be sure you can define Machine Learning and give an example that will teach someone else about Machine Learning.
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